More than four decades after her death, the author of the popular novels Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead is still one of the most divisive public intellectuals. On one hand, her position of ...

It is not every day that a foundation offers to pour tens of thousands of dollars into a humanities department at a small regional institution. But this past spring, the philosophy department at the ...

A Canadian institute devoted to spreading the word of the polarizing American author Ayn Rand has lost its charitable status after repeated non-compliance with tax law. The Ayn Rand Institute (Canada) ...

We met at a writer’s conference at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. At sixty-six, Patrick O’Connor had a roving eye and a drinking problem. A self-professed Trotskyite and anti-Stalinist from ...

I am writing a book on ideology in modern politics and I want to include examples of ideologies that derives their values from an "is". Marxism has its historical materialism, classic conservatism ...

I discovered Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged as a curious ninth-grader looking for something to read. I stumbled across the book randomly; my mother had an unread copy from her college years in a box in the ...

Rand's ideas spur thought in modern times To the Editor: The last Ayn Rand letter I read, which was the end of May on the Readers' Page, was a bit too narrow a view of Ayn Rand, who has seemed to be ...

An interview with David Loeper, CEO of Wealthcare Capital Management, an RIA in Richmond, VA If not for these private screenings by Loeper and his firm, this film would not be available for viewing in ...

It’s hard to say what Ayn Rand would think about our current superhero boom. On the one hand, the late author, philosopher, and progenitor of the Objectivist movement was a high-minded sort who ...

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Ayn Rand's quote highlights evident truths people collectively choose to ignore. She was a Russian-born novelist and ...